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August 27, 2013

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.

Kimberly Winston gives feature treatment to the Freethought Trail, a project of the Council for Secular Humanism, which is a self-guided tour through the sites of historic importance to the secularist cause in the 19th century.

At the CSI website, Luis Alfonso Gámez writes in Spanish about UFO conspiracy believers who unknowingly helped keep real secrets secret, aka, "The useful idiots of Area 51." (Run it through Google's auto-translator if you're using Chrome.)

New Jersey just told Dave Silverman he can't have a license plate that says "atheist." Uh oh.

Meanwhile in the Garden State, Christian activists do battle against the new gay-conversion therapy ban. Because that's totally a fight you want to get into.

Joe Nickell updates us on the "human torch baby" in India, and praises the work of one doctor who is working to get the case investigated not as "spontaneous human combustion" but as a possible crime committed on the child.

As stridently anti-religious as I've often been, I have to admit I've caught myself praying in the shower before. Simply pleas to no god in particular for strength or luck or rest that always made me feel a little bit like a fraud. Now that I know ritual trumps belief, maybe I can take my prayer to church without feeling like a heretic to science.

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Paul Fidalgo has been communications director of the Center for Inquiry since 2012. He holds a master’s degree in political management from George Washington University, and has worked previously for FairVote: The Center for Voting and Democracy and the Secular Coalition for America. Paul is also an actor and musician whose work includes five years performing with the American Shakespeare Center. He lives in Maine with his wife and kids. His blog at the Patheos network is iMortal, and he tweets at @paulfidalgo.